Key Points
- The 74th annual CNS meeting was held September 28 – October 2, 2024, in Houston, Texas.
- Eight talks featured focused ultrasound treatment for brain tumors, substance abuse disorder, and pain.
The 74th annual CNS meeting took place in Houston, Texas, September 28 – October 2, 2024. It featured sessions designed to support the entire neurosurgery community, from medical students to leading experts in the field. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Neurosurgery Origins,” and the program emphasized both proven methodologies like surgical tumor resection as well as emerging technologies such as neuromodulation.
Notable Awards
Dheeraj Gandhi, MD, FACR won the Neurosurgery Pain Paper of the Year Award for his publication titled Focused Ultrasound Central Lateral Thalamotomy for the Treatment of Refractory Neuropathic Pain: Phase I Trial
“Winning the Neurosurgery Pain Paper of the Year Award for our work with focused ultrasound highlights the potential of minimally invasive central lateral thalamotomy (CLT) in treating neuropathic pain,” said the senior author Dr. Gandhi. “This study underscores the promise of focused ultrasound in redefining pain management for this patient population who has extremely limited treatment options.”
Focused Ultrasound Presentations
Lesioning for Pain: MRgFUS by Ashwin Vishwanathan, Baylor College of Medicine
Focused Ultrasound: Challenging Cases Session moderated by Nir Lipsman, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Jasmine Thum, University of Alabama
- Treating Low SDRs by Shiro Horisawa, Tokyo Women’s Medical University
- Treating Parkinson’s (Presenter’s name and institution not given)
- Treating New Indications by Vibhor Krishna, University of North Carolina
- Focused Ultrasound for Addiction by Ahmed Raslan, Oregon Health & Science University
Focused Ultrasound and Intraoperative Photodynamic Therapy During Brain Tumor Resection Session moderated by Vijay Agarwal, Montefiore Einstein, and Jason Sheehan, University of Virginia
- Photodynamic Therapy for Malignant Glioma by Nicolas Reyns, University of Lille
- Focused Ultrasound for Gliomas* by Adam Sonabend, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Use of Focused Ultrasound for Treatment of Brain Metastases* by Nir Lipsman, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
*These clinical trials were supported by the Focused Ultrasound Foundation.
Next Meeting
The 75th annual CNS meeting will be held October 11–15, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Abstracts are being accepted until May 15, 2025. Go directly to the 2025 CNS Annual Meeting Abstract Center.